Subject: Internet Viruses
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Please note the following and pass the message to everyone you
know.
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Hello, everyone! This message is extremely important. It is about
a
very highly intelligent virus that is being spread nationwide
called
"Good Times". Once you have read this message, please forward to
anyone you care about.
Thanks.
SUBJECT: [Very Important !!! ]
There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet.
If you receive an email message with the subject line "Good
Times",
DO NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the
messages below.
Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Good Times"
nationwide, if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE
FILE!
It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything
on
it.
Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about.
The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of
major
importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently a new
computer virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ON LINE
that
is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other more
well-known
viruses such as "Stoned", "Airwolf" and "Michaelangelo" pale in
comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a warped
mentality. What makes this
virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is the fact that no program
needs
to be
exchanged for a new computer to be infected. It can be spread
through
the existing email systems of the Internet.
Once a Computer is infected, one of several things can happen. If
the computer contains a hard drive, that will most likely be
destroyed. If the
program is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed in
an
nth-complexity infinite binary loop -which can severely damage the
processor if left running that way too long.
Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is
happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure
means
of detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always
travels to new computers the same way in a text email message with
the
subject line reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy once
the
file
has been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of loading the
file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good Times"
mainline program to initialize and execute.
The program is highly intelligent- it will send copies of itself
to
everyone whose email address is contained in a receive-mail file
or a sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to
trash
the
computer it is running on.
The bottom line is: - if you receive a file with the subject line
"Good Times", delete it immediately! Do not read it" Rest assured
that whoever's name was on the "From" line was surely struck by the
virus. Warn your friends and local system users of this newest
threat
to the Internet! It could save them a lot of time and money.
Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well?
DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION
We work closely with the military and received this message from a
very reliable source in DC this morning.
A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the internet with the
name PKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this
file
is a new version of the PKZIP software used to "ZIP" (compress)
files.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you install
or
expand this file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and
affect
modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus
and
there is NOT yet a way of cleaning up this one.
REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE
EXTENSION
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C.R. Lang